That's a lingering effect of homophobia. Like racism, it's harder to completely remove than it first appears. Wait, weren't we talking about Apple jailbreaks?
I have done this for a grant-funded historical map digitization project at a university library. We used a $40k large-format scanner (from Betterlight) which can scan the whole item laid out flat. Trying to stitch together camera images will result in distortion across the image—if you didn't need to distort it, you wouldn't need special software to do it; you could just line the pictures up.
But even once you have image files, there's about zero chance you can just replace Google Maps' tiles with your own and expect geotagged stuff to line up where it should. If you have a finite number of places of interest, you could manually locate them on each map and then try to distort each map to align, but if you expect arbitrary geolocations to need to be right, give up. Non-satellite/GPS-based maps are examples of practical cartography, not theoretical. They will be even less perfect than you think, no matter how professional they appear. Or do what we did: keep the geotag display on Google's maps, but show your historical map of the same general region side-by-side and allow the user to calculate the precise correlation in his own brain.
Thank god for my ponytail. It's a Get Out of Jury Duty Free card. No prosecutor wants a long-haired, unmarried engineer with no kids on his jury. Apparently we ask "why not" too often and have unreasonably high standards of evidence, plus it's harder to move us with the old "Won't somebody please think of the children!" line. Fine by me.
Good choice on the TDI. My situation re: hybrids is like yours but even more so. A Prius is a pretty heavyweight solution to what's really a pretty simple problem—if the problem is saving money, used wins, and if the problem is saving the planet, reliable used wins unless you drive a lot because it's already manufactured and the gas mileage difference isn't necessarily that huge. I put more miles on my bike than my car, so I chose a little Chevy shortbed truck that gets a decent 30 mpg, with the added benefit that, unlike a VW, it has almost nothing non-essential to break. Power nothing, manual transmission, and practically no electronics in it. To be honest, I'd probably have come out ahead in both dollars and environmental resource usage vs. a Prius if I'd bought whatever was the least efficient small car of the 90's. Perhaps a Prius makes sense for people who commute in traffic a lot.
Snopes says... true. Wow, that almost never happens--I had always assumed this was a myth. The Snopes article, BTW, is much more informative and detailed than the one linked in the Slashdot post.
What kind of documents are they? If they're mostly text and you want versioning, the only drawback to subversion is getting people to learn the tools, but that might be too much.
If they're archival/static documents, an institutional repository could work. Something like DSpace isn't that hard to deploy and will provide basic archival and search features.
The middle ground between those two solutions is probably what you want, though. Everyone I work with uses SharePoint for that, and I hate recommending proprietary lock-in.
Time Machine serves two purposes at once: snapshots and backup. Having snapshots available doesn't help when the disk dies or gets corrupted. I suppose you could still copy everything to another disk and then use the ZFS snapshot features there, instead of using HFS hardlinks, but copying to another physical disk still needs to be part of the process.
False. From the first sentence in your own link: "...in many CDMA phones from LG, Samsung, Sanyo and other manufacturers." Not all BT phones: only some, and not the iPhone.
As an American liberal democrat atheist gay, I should say that even most of the people who aren't as awesome as me aren't as dumb as you make them out to be.
Now excuse me, I have to get back to my Truckosaurus. Yeehaw. That guy with the mullet is hot.
That's only if you're using the less-common FPS sub-version of English units (where pounds are mass units and poundals are force units). According to the gravitational FPS system (where pounds are force units and slugs are mass units), which is what I learned in high school at least, each satellite's mass is at least 31 slugs.
(That's close to 32, which is the approximate scaling factor between mass-pounds and force-pounds due to Earth's gravity acceleration at sea level being about 32 ft/sec^2, but it's just a coincidence. 31 slugs * 32 ft/sec^2 =~ 1000 mass-pounds, which is the "weight" of the satellite. Any good geek ought to see that quickly, though, since 32 * 32 is the familiar 2^10.)
So just when the whole world is plunged into chaos from the sun burning out, these guys want to compound the problems by causing widescale UNIX clock failure, too? How incredibly thoughtless.
A working replica would be dangerous and surely illegal. It would not be terrorism unless he used it deliberately to terrorize a group of people. Just because something is bad doesn't make it terrorism.
It doesn't matter whether it hits the ground in one piece, splits into fragments, or burns up entirely before impact. The energy release is the same; only the location and form of the released energy will vary.
I was assuming that the OP meant 1 kton of energy dissipated as heat into the atmosphere. It's a weird unit of measure to use for anything that isn't a point explosion, though. Still, I wonder how much it takes to noticeably affect anything beyond a temporary light show—the weather, perhaps. Probably more than this meteor has, even with your higher figure, unless it hits the ground.
The $800 rig had four times the RAM of the $2000 one, plus who knows what other differences. And the test results were mixed anyway. My thought on seeing those performance graphs was that it was irresponsible of the reviewer to include them unless he intentionally wanted to provoke a pointless flamewar.
AT&T Wireless isn't patched, according to doxpara.com. I can't exactly just switch carriers for my iPhone, though, and I can't reconfigure the network settings to use a different DNS, either. I guess I'll have a good excuse for browsing porn on it now: "But I typed google, I swear!"
The problem is that captchas have to be computer-generated on the fly. It's hard to think of things a computer can easily do in one direction, that a similar computer cannot undo, but that a human can easily undo. Relationship puzzles between words won't work because the attacking computer probably has dictionary resources very similar to the defending computer's.
Most people who don't trust Winzip probably don't use Windows anyway.
And for actual security, simply encrypting a single file won't cut it because it has to be decrypted to disk to use, and then Windows will probably write another clear copy to the swap file. You couldn't count on such encryption to prevent a casual inspection either--if the customs goon noticed the encrypted zip file, he might just demand the password or threaten to confiscate your laptop. Using a steganography or hidden disk program like TrueCrypt might work, but that's going overboard for most people.
Sony probably issued a press release stating that their CDs contained some sort of useful consumer value-added enhancement software. It's still a rootkit. The people who make Legos are quite benign by comparison, but I still won't let a corporate PR department dictate my vocabulary.
In addition, it's worth pointing out that Congress might not be able to privatize the postal service even if it wanted to. Article 8 of the Constitution, which lists powers of Congress, includes, "To establish Post Offices and Post Roads." The language doesn't expressly forbid privatization, but a public service was clearly the intent.
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That's a lingering effect of homophobia. Like racism, it's harder to completely remove than it first appears. Wait, weren't we talking about Apple jailbreaks?
I'm gay, and my A/V system is better than yours. But my cables came from Monoprice.
I have done this for a grant-funded historical map digitization project at a university library. We used a $40k large-format scanner (from Betterlight) which can scan the whole item laid out flat. Trying to stitch together camera images will result in distortion across the image—if you didn't need to distort it, you wouldn't need special software to do it; you could just line the pictures up.
But even once you have image files, there's about zero chance you can just replace Google Maps' tiles with your own and expect geotagged stuff to line up where it should. If you have a finite number of places of interest, you could manually locate them on each map and then try to distort each map to align, but if you expect arbitrary geolocations to need to be right, give up. Non-satellite/GPS-based maps are examples of practical cartography, not theoretical. They will be even less perfect than you think, no matter how professional they appear. Or do what we did: keep the geotag display on Google's maps, but show your historical map of the same general region side-by-side and allow the user to calculate the precise correlation in his own brain.
Thank god for my ponytail. It's a Get Out of Jury Duty Free card. No prosecutor wants a long-haired, unmarried engineer with no kids on his jury. Apparently we ask "why not" too often and have unreasonably high standards of evidence, plus it's harder to move us with the old "Won't somebody please think of the children!" line. Fine by me.
Good choice on the TDI. My situation re: hybrids is like yours but even more so. A Prius is a pretty heavyweight solution to what's really a pretty simple problem—if the problem is saving money, used wins, and if the problem is saving the planet, reliable used wins unless you drive a lot because it's already manufactured and the gas mileage difference isn't necessarily that huge. I put more miles on my bike than my car, so I chose a little Chevy shortbed truck that gets a decent 30 mpg, with the added benefit that, unlike a VW, it has almost nothing non-essential to break. Power nothing, manual transmission, and practically no electronics in it. To be honest, I'd probably have come out ahead in both dollars and environmental resource usage vs. a Prius if I'd bought whatever was the least efficient small car of the 90's. Perhaps a Prius makes sense for people who commute in traffic a lot.
Snopes says... true. Wow, that almost never happens--I had always assumed this was a myth. The Snopes article, BTW, is much more informative and detailed than the one linked in the Slashdot post.
What kind of documents are they? If they're mostly text and you want versioning, the only drawback to subversion is getting people to learn the tools, but that might be too much.
If they're archival/static documents, an institutional repository could work. Something like DSpace isn't that hard to deploy and will provide basic archival and search features.
The middle ground between those two solutions is probably what you want, though. Everyone I work with uses SharePoint for that, and I hate recommending proprietary lock-in.
Time Machine serves two purposes at once: snapshots and backup. Having snapshots available doesn't help when the disk dies or gets corrupted. I suppose you could still copy everything to another disk and then use the ZFS snapshot features there, instead of using HFS hardlinks, but copying to another physical disk still needs to be part of the process.
False. From the first sentence in your own link: "...in many CDMA phones from LG, Samsung, Sanyo and other manufacturers." Not all BT phones: only some, and not the iPhone.
Introducing blood-eating yeast into a person's pacemaker? What's the worst that could happen?
Oh yeah. Gray goo. I hope they've engineered in a lysine deficiency.
As an American liberal democrat atheist gay, I should say that even most of the people who aren't as awesome as me aren't as dumb as you make them out to be.
Now excuse me, I have to get back to my Truckosaurus. Yeehaw. That guy with the mullet is hot.
>>>Each satellite massed well over 1,000 pounds."
That's only if you're using the less-common FPS sub-version of English units (where pounds are mass units and poundals are force units). According to the gravitational FPS system (where pounds are force units and slugs are mass units), which is what I learned in high school at least, each satellite's mass is at least 31 slugs.
(That's close to 32, which is the approximate scaling factor between mass-pounds and force-pounds due to Earth's gravity acceleration at sea level being about 32 ft/sec^2, but it's just a coincidence. 31 slugs * 32 ft/sec^2 =~ 1000 mass-pounds, which is the "weight" of the satellite. Any good geek ought to see that quickly, though, since 32 * 32 is the familiar 2^10.)
And this is why SI exists.
So just when the whole world is plunged into chaos from the sun burning out, these guys want to compound the problems by causing widescale UNIX clock failure, too? How incredibly thoughtless.
A working replica would be dangerous and surely illegal. It would not be terrorism unless he used it deliberately to terrorize a group of people. Just because something is bad doesn't make it terrorism.
That argument only works with rational people. That doesn't seem to include this article's posters.
If you don't buy crippled content in the first place, it's just wasted, unused, hardware.
...that you paid for, and for which a licensing fee got forwarded to a hateful organization. The hardware is harmful even if you don't "use" it.
It doesn't matter whether it hits the ground in one piece, splits into fragments, or burns up entirely before impact. The energy release is the same; only the location and form of the released energy will vary. I was assuming that the OP meant 1 kton of energy dissipated as heat into the atmosphere. It's a weird unit of measure to use for anything that isn't a point explosion, though. Still, I wonder how much it takes to noticeably affect anything beyond a temporary light show—the weather, perhaps. Probably more than this meteor has, even with your higher figure, unless it hits the ground.
The $800 rig had four times the RAM of the $2000 one, plus who knows what other differences. And the test results were mixed anyway. My thought on seeing those performance graphs was that it was irresponsible of the reviewer to include them unless he intentionally wanted to provoke a pointless flamewar.
AT&T Wireless isn't patched, according to doxpara.com. I can't exactly just switch carriers for my iPhone, though, and I can't reconfigure the network settings to use a different DNS, either. I guess I'll have a good excuse for browsing porn on it now: "But I typed google, I swear!"
The problem is that captchas have to be computer-generated on the fly. It's hard to think of things a computer can easily do in one direction, that a similar computer cannot undo, but that a human can easily undo. Relationship puzzles between words won't work because the attacking computer probably has dictionary resources very similar to the defending computer's.
Most people who don't trust Winzip probably don't use Windows anyway. And for actual security, simply encrypting a single file won't cut it because it has to be decrypted to disk to use, and then Windows will probably write another clear copy to the swap file. You couldn't count on such encryption to prevent a casual inspection either--if the customs goon noticed the encrypted zip file, he might just demand the password or threaten to confiscate your laptop. Using a steganography or hidden disk program like TrueCrypt might work, but that's going overboard for most people.
In Tiger or Leopard, check "Use secure virtual memory" in the Security preference pane.
Sony probably issued a press release stating that their CDs contained some sort of useful consumer value-added enhancement software. It's still a rootkit. The people who make Legos are quite benign by comparison, but I still won't let a corporate PR department dictate my vocabulary.
In addition, it's worth pointing out that Congress might not be able to privatize the postal service even if it wanted to. Article 8 of the Constitution, which lists powers of Congress, includes, "To establish Post Offices and Post Roads." The language doesn't expressly forbid privatization, but a public service was clearly the intent.